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2. Whether or no, that, which, from its being firft 
difcover’d in Amber, we call Electricity, electrical 
JE ther, electrical Power, <&c. is any other than ele- 
mentary Fire ? 
3. Whether or no this Fire does not appear in 
different Forms, according to its different Modifi- 
cations ? Does it not, when diffufed under a large 
Surface, appear to affect us as Air? When brought 
towards a Point, does it not become vifible, as lam- 
bent Flame? When nearer ftill, does it not explode, 
and become the Object alfo of our Feeling as well 
as of our Hearing? Altho' it does not affect our 
Skin with the Senfation of Heat 5 does it not, by 
its lighting up inflammable Subftances, fhew itfelfto 
be truly Fire? 
4. Whether or no this Fire is not connected in- 
timately with all Bodies at all times, though leaft 
of all, probably, with pure dry Air? Have we not 
found and feparated it from Water, Flame, even 
that intenfe one of Oil of Turpentine, Smoke, red- 
hot Iron, and from a Mixture thirty Degrees colder 
than the freezing Point ? 
y. Have we not proved its Subtility, from its 
palling through all known Bodies ? 
6. May we not infer its Elafticity likewife from 
its Explofions, from its increafing the Motion of 
fluids, as well as from its Effect in the Concuflion 
of our Bodies, when we difeharge it after we have 
accumulated it in Water? 
7. May not the electrical Machine, from its Ufes, 
be denominated a Fire-Pump, with equal Propriety 
as the Inftrument of Otto Guerick and Mr. Boyle y 
that of the Air ? 
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